Pin-ticket



PATENTED JAN. 5, 1904.-

M. s. JOHNSON.

PIN TICKET.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 13, 1902.

H0 MODEL:

Patented January 5, 1904.

PATENT FFICE.

MORTEN S. JOHNSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PlN-TlCKET.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 748,957, dated January5, 1904.

Application filed October 13, 1902. Serial No. 126,984. (No modem 7citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a Pin-Ticket, of which thefollowing is a specification.

Ihis invention relates to pin-tickets for marking merchandise, asclothing, fabrics, and the like. I

Primary objects of my invention are to provide a pin-ticket of simpleand cheap construction, which may be quickly and conveniently attachedto and detached from the goods to be marked; to provide a pin-ticketwhich may be manipulated without danger of pricking the fingers on thepin-points, and to prevent the pin-points from pricking the hands andcatchingin the goods in handlin To'this end a pin-ticket of my inventionconsists of the various features, combination of features, and detailsof construction hereinafter described and claimed.

1n the accompanying drawings a pin-ticket of my invention isfnllyillustrated:

Figure 1 isa perspective view ofa pin-ticket of my invention. Fig. 2 isa sectional view thereof inserted through a piece of cloth. Fig. 3 is asimilar view showing the pins bent down to secure the ticket to thecloth, and Fig. at is a plan view showing the ticket attached to a pieceof cloth.

Referring now to the drawings, l designates the ticket, and 2 flexiblepins rigidily secured thereto. The ticket may be of any usual or desiredconstruction, and the pins 2 may be secured thereto in any mannerdesired. As shown, the ticket 1 consists of two layers or pieces ofpaper pasted together, one of said pieces being preferably made ofcard-board. As shown, also, the pins 2 are formed from an integral pieceof wire, the connecting or intermediate portion 30f which is bowed orU-shaped and is bent laterally relatively to said pins, so that saidpins 2 and said curved or U-shaped section 3 will be in differentplanes. The curved or U-shaped section 3 is secured between the layersofthe ticket 1, the pins 2 passing through one layer of said ticket andprojecting laterally therefrom. It is obvious that the curved or thehands. pressure will be exerted on the opposite sides U-shaped portion 3of the wire forming said pins 2 will secure said pins rigidly to theticket 1. The ends of the pins 2 are bent to form hooks 4, said hooksbeing preferably bent slightly beyond a position at right angles to thebody portions of said pins. When the ticket is finished and ready foruse, the

pins 2 extend substantially at right angles to' the surface of saidticket.

In attaching the ticket the pins 2 are interted through the goods 5,preferably until the ticket 1 is in contact with said goods. Said pinsare then bent down bodily upon the goods in such a manner that the hooks4. will enter the goods, thereby firmly securing s'aid ticket to thegoods. Preferably, also, the pins 2 project from the surface of theticket 1 adistance less than that between the points where they leavethe ticket and the side or end of said ticket in the direction in whichthey are to be bent. Thus, when said pins are bent over in attachingsaid ticket,

the ends of said hooks willstrike and be covered by said ticket,insuring against their catchingiuothergoodsinhandlingorpricking Inbending said pins, also, the

thereof from the hooks 4, thus insuring against pricking the fingers inbending said books, as often happens in bending straight hooks.

The ineaning or significance of the word book, as used herein, is thatthe ends 4 of to the shanks thereof that they will catch in the fabricwhen drawn across the same.

I claim- 1. A pin-ticket consisting of a ticket and pins for insertionthrough the fabric rigidly secured to and projecting from said ticket ata distance from the edge thereof toward which said pins are designed tobe bent, said pins being bent at their ends to form hooks for engagementwith the fabric-at a distance from the point where said pins passthrough the same, substantially as described.

2. A pin-ticketconsisting of a ticket and pins for insertion through thefabric rigidly secured to said ticket at a distance from the edgethereof toward which said pins are designed to be bent greater than thelength of my invention I affix my signature, in pressaid pins, said pinsbeing bent at their ends enee of two subscribing Witnesses, this 3d dayto form hooks for engagement with the fabric of October, A. D. 1902.

at a distance from the point where said pins MORTEN S. JOHNSON.

5 pass through the same, substantially as de- Witnesses:

scribed. JOHN A. MOKEOWN,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as M. S. SOMERVILLE.

